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Riverfront residents do all they can to prevent flooding

August 3, 2011

After floods this winter and spring, some New Jersey towns turned to FEMA relief to help them recover. Not all were successful.

In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, living along the Delaware proves to be an adventurous life. Mary Cummings-Jordan tells the story of residents who raised their foundations, moved their utilities and have scooped fish out their basements when the Delaware swells too high.

But for them, the beauty of living along the river outweighs the cost of flood damage.